Ruark Lewis

Star Shelters are make-believe designs for homeless people. Often these works begin from provisional drawings. At the first stage the sketch is made by randomly jabbing pencil marks onto the paper. Lines are drawn from these points to form a weblike structure. These lines are determined by chance. The resulting network looks like a star chart of the celestial heavens. From these lines spatial forms are constructed by connecting the points and lines forming triangles. Then each triangle is divided into intervals and
combined they form alternating prismatic shapes. These optical designs can expand to generating large-scale paintings and sculptures.
Star Shelter banner 2015
acrylic on canvas
171 x 205 cm
Courtesy of artist
$12 500 - please contact NAS directly for purchase 9339 8729 or danielle.neely@nas.edu.au